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Astronomer Frank Drake, who in 1960 with Project Ozma began the first serious quest for extraterrestrial intelligent life...
...Wizard of Oz. Words fail me. If you know the right ones, on the other hand, you can trade them in for a couple of ruby slippers. Under what guise did Ozma, the legitimate ruler whose place the Wizard took, pass the majority of her childhood? And a pun referring to what conveyance so offended even the long-suffering Jack Pumpkinhead that he momentarily stopped smiling? This weekend and next, 8 p.m. at Dunster House (also 11 on Saturday...
...several occasions in the past decade, radio astronomers have been startled to receive signals that seemed to signify an extraterrestrial intelligence. By 1960, when scientists led by Frank Drake in an operation called Project Ozma used the radio telescope at Green Bank, W. Va., in an attempt to pick up signals from nearby stars, they detected regular pulses that were later presumed to be emanating from a secret U.S. radar experiment. In the mid-1960s, a Russian astronomer detected varying signals from a mysteri ous radio source; Tass breathlessly reported that the signals were a beacon from a supercivilization...
...Agnes Moorehead, a suitably grating witch, all but punctured the screen with her cockney accent, and Sterling Holloway, as Jack Pumpkinhead, cried seeds instead of tears. Hostess Temple herself, whose new series will include such additional material as Winnie-the-Pooh and Kim, played-within her limitations -both Princess Ozma and the boy Tip. She turned up for the new season deglamorized, lacking the airy coiffure and shining lipstick which she used to help sell last season's Shirley Temple Story Book...
...radio messages can span interstellar distances. Dr. Purcell estimates that the total power of all the 21-cm. waves that bathe the earth's surface is equal to the power of only one watt, but modern antennas can pick them up easily. And this week's Project Ozma is a first small step in an effort that might take one year or 10,000 to turn a dream into reality...